Edwin F. Taylor

Edwin
F. Taylor received his A. B. degree from Oberlin College and his Ph.D.
degree in physics from Harvard University. He has spent most of his
professional life in the Department of Physics at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology. He has written texts in introductory mechanics, quantum
mechanics (with A. P. French), and special and general
relativity (with John Archibald Wheeler).

He was Editor of the American Journal of Physics. With
MIT students, with Paul Horwitz, and with Slavomir Tuleja he has
written award-winning educational software to help students manipulate
the predictions of relativity and quantum mechanics.

Taylor received the Oersted Medal, the highest award of the American
Association of Physics Teachers, "for notable contributions to the teaching of physics."